ADMentor Tool

Architectural Decision Modeling Add-In for Sparx Enterprise Architect

Context matters when it comes to experience sharing; therefore simplistic best practices rules and design-by-authority are bound to fail in the real world. This makes architectural decision knowledge particularly precious. However, such knowledge changes frequently, and architecture documentation budgets typically are very limited. Therefore, knowledge reuse by chance is not going to happen.

Decision guidance models, created with the ADMentor tool, fill the gap between static and stale reference architectures and patterns and retrospective decision capturing in meeting protocols, project wikis, or software architecture documents.

Vision, architecture and implementation of ADMentor are described in an IEEE/IFIP WICSA 2015 paper (author's copy) and supporting presentation (PDF). The users guide (use case walkthrough) can be downloaded here.